The Archive · 1939

Merchants Refuse

Germany is also buying rubber waste here, and 500 tons of zinc ore left Manchester on June 13 in the s. Switzerland for Hamburg and Bremen. A quantity of scrap copper left in the same boat.

Some British firms of scrap merchants have refused to export more scrap to Germany. An official. of George Cohen, Sons and Coy., Ltd. of Stepney, London, said: We stopped sending scrap to Germany after the crisis last September.

An official of the British Iron and Steel Federation said:—

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